Northern Cafe — Restaurant in Los Angeles

My boyfriend and I recently moved to the area and were looking for a new dumpling spot, we previously enjoyed MAD dumplings and Dan Modern Chinese in Long Beach. We decided to try this place out and it was soooooo delicious and I left so full. I even went again two days later with my sister.

Everything we ordered was delicious:

Beef Roll- filling, savory, and somehow a little sweet, the onion flavors comes through (but I LOVE onions)

Juicy Pork Dumplings!!!! aka soup dumplings aka xiao long bao. These were a hit with myself, my boyfriend, and my sister and her kids. I wish I could have a better metabolism so I could eat 100 of them.

The chicken dumplings (boiled), delicious, reliable, would 1000% order again.

The lamb dumplings (pan friend) I enjoyed them, my boyfriend not so much, but they are delicious. I guess you just have to like the flavor of lamb.

Pork, Shrimp, egg, and chive dumplings (pan fried) what can I say? THEY DON'T MISS. I was wary of texture with the thought of pork, shrimp, and egg, but that was not an issue. It was sooo good.

We ordered orange chicken for one of the kids and even that was crispy, saucy, yummy!

I will definitely keep coming here for my...

I ordered through Uber Eats. The food was delivered missing an item of Chicken Chow Mein (spicy). I spoke with the owner who was very difficult to understand, not just by me but 3 other nurses on speaker phone. She decided that because she put six bags in the box that we received all of our items. No matter how many times I tried to tell her it wasn't in the box she kept counting the bags. So....anyways the DanDan noodle with ground pork didn't have ground pork, it had these minute shreds of pork that was difficult to see at first, so I basically paid 11.99 for ill tasting noodles. The Pork and Shrimp Wonton soup were extremely bland and can not compare to that of Nim Chan's . We nurses were craving Chinese food, Nim Chans is our go to place. For some reason they are closed today. We decided to try somewhere new ordered from Northern Cafe and will never do again. I have never given a negative review that I can remember. If zero stars was possible that would have been my score. The food is not very good, but my greatest issue was how "right" the owner repeatedly declared to...

Food - pretty good but not great Service - nice people but minimal service Ambiance - clean and comfortable

I have been to many Northern Cafes and have been looking forward to this one. I noticed most of the reviews were about dumplings and realized this one is more specialized for dumplings (boiled, pan-fried and steamed XLB varieties.

I was hoping for the noodle specialties like the one in Gardena (which is my favorite in the region, 10 min more drive for me).

We ordered: crab dumplings- steamed, XLB style, it was pretty good lamb dumplings- pan fried, it was ok, a little oily beef noodle soup- it was ok, they only served with thin noodles, we preferred other handmade varieties at the Gardena store

We also ordered the beef rolls to go, it looked exact like the ones shown on the poster, ha ha.

Overall, pretty good if you are...